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Table 2 Characteristics of staff participating in the field test

From: Assessing the quality of patient handovers between ambulance services and emergency department – development and validation of the emergency department human factors in handover tool

 

Full sample

N = 90

Ambulance services

N = 52

Emergency department

N = 38

P-value

Profession

0.002

 No physicians

63 (70)

43 (61.4)

20 (52.6)

 

 Physicians

27 (30)

9 (31.0)

18 (47.3)

 

Years in practice

0.047

 0–2 years

17 (18.9)

5 (9.6)

12 (31.6)

 

 3–5 years

20 (22.2)

11 (21.2)

9 (23.7)

 

 6–10 years

21 (23.3)

14 (26.9)

7 (18.4)

 

  > 10 years

32 (35.6)

22 (42.3)

10 (26.3)

 

Sex

0.025

 Female

33 (36.7)

14 (26.9)

19 (50)

 

 Male

57 (63.3)

38 (73.1)

19 (50)

 

Age

0.064

  < 25

7 (7.8)

4 (7.7)

3 (7.9)

 

 25–35

49 (54.4)

26 (50)

23 (60.5)

 

 36–45

21 (23.3)

10 (19.2)

11 (28.9)

 

 46–55

12 (13.3)

11 (21.2)

1 (2.6)

 

  > 55

1 (1.1)

1 (1.9)

0 (0)

 
  1. Descriptive data are given as number (%); significance testing is by χ2 test or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate